On pydev list,
2017-06-30 15:59 GMT+02:00 Victor Stinner <victor.stinner at gmail.com>:
> GitHub has a showcase page of hosted programming languages:
> https://github.com/showcases/programming-languages
> Python is only #11 with 8,539 stars, behind PHP and Ruby!
> Hey, you should "like" ("star"?) the CPython project if you like Python!
> https://github.com/python/cpython/
> Click on "Star" at the top right.
and
>4 days later, we got +2,389 new stars, thank you! (8,539 => 10,928)
>Python moved from the 11th place to the 9th, before Elixir and Julia.
>Python is still behind Ruby (12,511) and PHP (12,318), but it's
already much better than before!
Someone else posted to reddit.
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Terry Jan Reedy